Belize General Info

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on October 26, 2011

Every fall my partner Cully drives all of our new gear down to Belize. He has been doing this since 1977, and has only missed 2 years in all of that time. He left Monday morning and is now in Texas, he’ll cross over into Mexico tomorrow. It is our custom to take a picture right as he leaves Moab. I wish I had all of these pictures, in order! Our vehicles have gotten much nicer, and our sport

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on October 21, 2011

I am back from MY vacation (backpacking in Utah), and I’m back just in time to see the van loaded to the gills for Cully’s annual drive south. He’s not taking a trailer this year, just a new van, so the load is particularly creatively packed. Cully drives to Belize every year. That is the only way to get all of our kayaks, boards, generators, etc. down to Belize and out to the island. Victor

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on October 19, 2011

I grew up in a large family, and we went on lots of adventures together. Mostly we camped in the national parks of the west coast where we lived, and I remember all of those trips with a clarity far beyond most of my other childhood memories. But one trip stands out in particular, largely because of its location — the enchanted deserts of Joshua Tree National Monument. The environment was so

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on October 6, 2011

The other day someone at the office mentioned the term “ecotourism” and a debate ensued as to what exactly that term means now-a-days. So I decided to look it up on Wikipedia and was surprised to find that the description fit Adventure Island to a “T”. Ecotourism is responsible travel to fragile, pristine, and usually protected areas that strive to be low impact and (often

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on October 5, 2011

We have been asked in the past how best to get in shape for our trips to our Caribbean private island. After all, you can experience up to 15 sports on our Belize Adventure Week package, some you have likely never tried before: whitewater kayaking, underground rafting and kayaking, caving, hiking, sea kayaking, snorkeling, scuba diving, kitesurfing, windsurfing, kayak surfing, sport fishing, kayak

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on October 4, 2011

When we first thought about venturing down the Caves Branch River, Belize, in the mid 1980’s. We had some basic information about the run from a friend in Moab who had actually been on the first exploratory trip through the caves a few years before. That group of cavers had explored the river cave system from the bottom end up before taking their first trip downstream on inner tubes. So, we knew

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on September 29, 2011

One of Slickrock’s many island activities is sea kayak kite-sailing trips, where we employ special kites made to tow kayaks. When the wind is from the right direction, we often get out the kayak kites and hook them up for a down-wind run to Middle Caye. The kites still allow the kayaker to steer the boat with a rudder, although that is limited to about 45 degrees off from straight down wind. It

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on September 28, 2011

I just created this big shot of the island… it took 8 photos to put this together. I took these images last spring from the end of our dock. Slickrock’s kayak/windsurf beach is at the left in the photo, the dive shop is to the right. Click on the image to see the longest version your screen will allow!

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on September 27, 2011

The Beaufort scale is a system for measuring wind speed based on visual observations, and is still widely used despite the advent of modern wind gauges and other instruments. What is truly interesting is that this wind scale system is still referred to at all, considering it was developed in the early 1800’s! Our digital weather station and wind gauge on the island still read in the Beaufort sca